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发帖数: 6973 | 1 Michael Wilson, In This Cinderella Story, the Prince’s Ball Was a Robbery
in Queens. New York Times, Apr 16, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/nyregion/queens
-robbery-case-hinges-on-a-sneaker.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=cinderella&st=cse
My comment:
(a) You have to read to the end--middle at least--to understand the news
story. Hint:
ball (n; French bal, from Old French, from baller to dance, from Late Latin
ballare, from Greek ballizein): "a large formal gathering for social dancing
"
www.m-w.com
(b) set upon: "to attack usually with violence
trespassers>"
(c) Rikers Island
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikers_Island
(is New York City's main jail complex, as well as the name of island on
which it sits, in the East River between Queens and the mainland Bronx,
adjacent to the runways of LaGuardia Airport; The island is thought to be
named after Abraham Rycken, a Dutch settler who moved to Long Island in 1638
and whose descendants owned Rikers Island until 1884, when it was sold to
the city for $180,000. It has been used as a jail ever since) |
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